The Portland daily press., 1887-12-28
NANCY cLARK's WILL.
A Very Interesting Document.

Nancy Clark of Deering deceased, widow
of the late DR.. Eliphalet Clark, by her last
will and testament, makes the following be-
quests;
By the first clause, whereas her husband
in his last will gave her certain lots of land,
lying in Deering between Pleasant street on
the north. and South street on the south,
the tenure of which lots was to be held, sub
ject to certain conditions named in that will,
she authorized her executors to execute any
deed of said lots the said deed to be execut-
ed under the limitations and restrictions of
the will, and to contain condition of for
fixture, and of said lots reverting to the
"Maine Wesleyan Board of Education" as
provided for in the will.
By the second clause, if Board of Trus-
tees of a Homeopathic Hospital of this State
shall claim and proceed to occupy the above
named lots as provided for in her husbands
last will, and shall within eight years of
July nth, 1888, have erected and completed
a suitable single cottage hospital costing not
less than $500, upon said land. and shall
have procured and had paid in permanent
fund of not less than $4,000, the income of
which shall be applied only for hospital pur
poses and for sustaining homeopathic hos
pital ON the premises, then she orders her
executors to execute deed to said homeo-
pathic hospital trustees, conveying to them
certain lands and the buildings thereon
excepting certain land bargained by her to
the trustees of the Clark Memorial church at
Woodford' s-said premises to be occupied
only as a home for the officers and physi-
clans of said hospital, paying patients and
convalescents, and no part of this property
shall ever be leased, sold or occupied for any
other purpose, and the buildings must be
kept in good repair; should this property
fail to lie used for the purposes herein speci-
fed and the conditions of the deed be broken
then the property shall become part of the
residum of the estate and disposed of as
hereinafter mentioned.
By the thiri clause, if she dies before the
conditions of clause two are fulfilled, then
the executors take care Of the property and
pay the rental to the hospital trustees if they
accept the provisions of the will
By the fourth clause, if the hospital trus-
tees do not accept the conditions of the
will, or fail to fulfil its requirements, or the
conditions are broken, then her trustees
take possession and dispose of the property
as hereinafter ordered.
She bequeaths the large oil paintings of
herself and husband to Mrs. Rosa U. Ridge
way of Evanston, ILL.,, for life, and after
her death to the Maine Wesleyan Seminary
and Female College at Kent's Hill.
To the Preachers Aid Society of the
Maine Conference she gives $500; $500 in
trust to the trustees of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, for the benefit of the Won-
ems Foreign Missionary Society; to the
Home for Aged Women, on Emery street,
$780,
If the Hospital trustees decline to accept
the property left them by the conditions of
the will, then the trustees-after taking out
$1,000 to be invested and the income paid to
the minister of the Clark Memorial Church.
or if there be none. it shall be added to the
principal, or if the church building be de-
stroyed and not rebuilt, then the income
shall be paid to the Preachers Aid Society
shall pay the remainder divided into ten
equal parts, viz: one-tenth to George G.
Weber, Nellie E. Thompson, Annie E.
Clark, Rosa N. Ridgway, Caroline M. Rob-
inson, Martha r. Eastman. and Samuel E.
Caldwell, and the other three-tenths to Den
mis- E. Clark and W. F. Caldwell.
She appoints Briceus M. Eastman and
Joseph A. Locke, of Portland, and Caroline
NJ. Robinson of Deering, executors and
trustees, and requires no bonds from them
or any inventory. The will is dated July
s, 1885, and witnessed by E. H. Elwell,
Hiram Hinckley and Nellie Donovan.